The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1887-05-25
NEW YORK GOSSIP.
CURRENT PHASES OF SOCIAL LIFE
IN THE METROPOLIS.
A Lavender Fever In the Gay world-'No-
body Sorry for Mrs. Potter-The Married
Woman's Day Has Come-Art Of Making
Up-One Must Suffer to be Beautiful.
rcopursaAtea. ISL


Some time ago all the fashionable world
had the scarlet fever, and red gowns,
parasols, fans and wells announced 1t.
Now Che fancy is for mauve, heliotrope,
violet or, TO call it by an old-fashioned
name, lavender. Fashionable horses
have bunch Of violets or pansies at
their heads; on the stately coachman is
an enormous cluster, while madame,
leaning back in her pretty way, is
gowned in heliotrope, wears a bonnet
Of vioIets, loosely holds bunch of them
in her hand, and is certain that equipage
and rider are in the very height of the
fashion. It has taken precisely two
years for this color to become as pop
ular in New FORK as in Paris, and the
reason for 1t may be found in the fact
that here women are of many complex
ions; there of few. The real heliotrope
is only becoming to dark woman with
much color, but the manufacturers,
knowing that all the varying tints pre-
vail here, that rosy blondes and pale
ones, deep brunettes and brune-blondes
must be suited, have made SO many hues
that are called by the name that each and
every condition of woman from COM
plexion standpoint is satisfied.
The English papers tell of Mrs. James
Brown Potter's failure in London and
somehow nobody feels sorry for her.
She had little to gain except the gratif-
cation of petty vanity, and much to
lose by going on the stage. Reciting
pleasantly and gracefully in drawing
room, she is without any exception the
most awkward woman on the stage have
ever seen. And | have seen all the anna
tours. In the first place Mrs. Potters
arms are so long that in love-making she
suggests, by an embrace, the way acork-
screw would look If it were outside the
cork. Then she lacks repose, she does
not walk well and she is conscious to
degree that is painful, even to her audi
ence. Now, Mrs. Langtry was much
better equipped for the stage, although
in the amateur line she had not been adj
vertised 80 extensively; the English wo-
man walks well and has charm of quiet
ease and beauty to back 1t all. There are
hundreds of women in the United States
who are better-looking, better formed
and mere graceful than Mrs. Potter;
whether there are as many who are con-
sumed bv a great vanity / do not know.
but hope not.
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